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Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets trade made official
I hope you had your cameras out, because the Boston Celtics are not the Celtics of old any longer. In a trade made and agreed upon on draft day and finalized Friday, the Brooklyn Nets...
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The Boston Celtics: Five stages of grief
As a Boston Celtics fan still reeling from the recent implosion of one of the great Celtics eras in franchise history, I was finally able to acknowledge within myself today that I’ve fully gone through...
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The Past, Present and Future of Canadian Basketball
For many years, basketball in Canada has been mostly an afterthought, the little country to the North of basketball's greatest country, America. There’s no doubt in anyone’s minds that the United States has produced the...
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BMF Podcast 2: Entitlement and Titles
In this episode, DV talks about allegations of NBA players wanting other NBA players to link up and join where they are, or are going, to form a "Big Three" and what not ala the...
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Orlando Magic determined to buyout Hedo Turkoglu
If you have been watching the Orlando Magic NBA Summer League games, you will know that they have about six players who should play significant minutes on the team next season. Hedo Turkoglu, on his...
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Who's going to run this town? Knicks-Nets rivalry set to be the main event!
There are a number of different ways to cross the East River to get between Manhattan and Brooklyn. You have the iconic bridges, the Midtown Tunnel, and pretty much every subway line runs between the...
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Denver Nuggets offseason signals an end to contention
Andre Iguodala and George Karl are gone, slowly fading away... It has turned out to be quite an eventful offseason for the Denver Nuggets. The team has brought in a new front office, head coach...
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Kobe Bryant the ego killer
When news leaked last week of Kobe Bryant’s aggressive pitch to Dwight Howard, Dwight’s decision to depart became a foregone conclusion. Rather than coddling the oddly needy center, reassuring Howard that he was a very...
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In support of the unsung NBA free agency acquisition
It's no surprise that over the past week, the NBA free agency conversation has been almost exclusively focused on Dwight Howard. By all accounts it's a perfect ESPN spin cycle story: best free agent available...
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How the Los Angeles Lakers and Dwight Howard Win
The prettiest girl in school wasn't asked to prom. A shock to everyone, I know. Shouldn't we all be upset? This is a basketball travesty... if you hate the Los Angeles Lakers. Dwight Howard leaving...
